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Pentagon threatens to sue bin Laden raid author

The compound in Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killedAAMIR QURESHI

The Pentagon last night declared legal war on the retired Seal Team Six commando who has written a book about the killing of Osama bin Laden in which he played a part on May 2 last year.

In a dramatic development, Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon chief legal counsel, wrote to Mark Owen, pseudonym for Matt Bissonnette, 36, a member of the US Navy Seal raiding party, advising that he was in “material breach and violation” of his lifetime obligation never to divulge classified information.

Mr Johnson warned him that the Department of Defence was considering “pursuing against you, and all those acting in concert with you, all remedies legally available to us in light of this situation”.